Using Map Views and Spatial Analytics in OBI 11g - …...Using Maps and Geo Spatial Analytics in Oracle Business Intelligence 11g Presenter Information Tim Vlamis, Consultant Vlamis

Using Map Views and

Spatial Analytics in OBI 11g

BIWA Summit 2014

Tim Vlamis

Dan Vlamis

Vlamis Software Solutions

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Overview

• Why Maps are a Superior Visualization

• Quick Demo

• Maps are a Native View in OBIEE 11g

• Map Basics in OBIEE 11g

• Oracle MapViewer and OBIEE

• Oracle Locator and Oracle Spatial

• NAVTEQ Data

• Demo of Maps in OBIEE

• Review and Summary


Why Maps are Powerful

Maps convey dense, multi-

dimensional relationships in data

faster and more intuitively than

any other graphical display

methodology.


Humans Think Spatially


What is Spatial Data?

• Business data that contains or describes location

• Street and postal address (customers, stores, factory, etc.)

• Sales data (sales territory, customer registration, etc.)

• Assets (cell towers, pipe lines, electrical transformers, etc.)

• Geographic features (roads, rivers, parks, etc.)

• Anything connected to a physical location


When Are Map Views Useful?

• Visualizing data related to geographic locations.

• Showing or detecting spatial relationships and patterns.

• Showing lots of data in a relatively small area.

• Drilling down from a (map) overview to a detailed report,

chart, or graph.

• Whenever location is important!


Map Interactivity in OBIEE 11g

• Display BI data on top of maps

• Color fill

• FOI (feature of interest) point display

• Interact with other Dashboard Elements

• Drive map content with dashboard prompts

• Drive map content through drilling and navigation

• Drive other dashboard elements through map interactions

• Reveal information on maps through mouseovers

• Drill to map detail


Oracle MapViewer

• Component of Oracle Fusion Middleware

• Runs in WebLogic and other J2EE environments.

• Developer’s visualization “toolkit” of programmable

Java components and APIs for rendering maps and

data.

• Used for embedding maps in web-based applications

and rendering location-based content.

• Connects to geospatial application data tables.

• Map Builder is the java application for editing metadata

in an Oracle Database (themes, styles, base maps).


MapViewer “mashup” in OBIEE

MapBuilder Spatial Theme Admin tool - BI Data

BI EE: Manage Map Data

BI Answers Map View


Map Definitions

• STYLE

• Define rendering properties for spatial shape or point on maps.

• Can control fill color, border color, line thickness, line style and more

• THEME

• Typically associated with a spatial geometry layer

• Metadata that specifies geospatial data to be rendered, styles to be applied, and optional query conditions for filtering.

• County/state boundaries, major highways, etc…

• BASEMAP

• A grouping of predefined themes to create a map

• Maps can share themes

• When associating a theme with a map, can specify min scale and max scale (sometimes known as zoom control)

• MAP• Basemap with additional themes overlain


Using Spatial Data in OBIEE 11g

• Possible use cases

1. Load customers map data, usually

provided as Shape File(s)

2. Configure MapViewer theme(s)

3. Configure theme for Map View

4. Proceed as above

Coordinates (i.e., longitude/latitude)

How does

customer data

reference location?

Postal address

Standard off-the-shelf geography

(i.e., state, county, zip)

Customer-specific map layers

(i.e., reporting regions, facilities)

Include coordinates in presentation

layer and use “Custom Point Layer”

Map Layout specifying longitude as

X, latitude as Y

Perform address geocoding

preprocess to derive/store

coordinates from addresses and

then proceed as above

1. Ensure unique key in presentation

table matches key in map data.

2. Configure presentation table for

mapping using

Administration>Manage Map Data


Oracle Locator and Oracle Spatial

• Oracle Locator is a feature of both Oracle Standard and Enterprise Database Editions.

• Oracle Locator provides basic location functionality.• Point, line, and polygon spatial locations (SDO_GEOMETRY)

• Spatial indexing

• Spatial operators that use the spatial index for performing spatial inquiries.

• Oracle Spatial is an option for Oracle Database Enterprise Edition• Provides extensive support for advanced spatial processing

and analytics including routing, vector and raster data, topology and network models, and more.


Map View Formats

• Color Fill (choropleth)

• Percentile, Value,

Continuous binning

• Dashboard user run-time

slider

• Graphs – Bar, Pie

• Adjustable graph size

• Series by second dimension

• Bubble (variable sized)

• Min-Max size specification

• Color specification

• Variable Shape

• Circle, Triangle, Diamond

• Customizable

• Image

• Imported via MapViewer

• More can be added from

MapBuilder

• Custom Point Layer

• Uses Lat / Long

• Does not require a Layer Def


Map View Tips

• Think about what scale to use. Different map scales will

reveal different patterns and insights.

• Use Variable marker to display two measures on a map

at a point – size and color.

• Avoid overlapping shapes too much.

• Be aware of spatial distortions E.g. Texas is larger than

Connecticut.

• Look at color palette. www.colorbrewer2.org


http://www.colorbrewer2.org/

Using Color Effectively

• Consciously choose a color palate.

• ColorBrewer2.org

• Sequential schemes

• Designed for ordered data that progresses from low to high.

• Divergent schemes

• Place equal emphasis on mid-range values and extremes

at both ends of the data range.

• Qualitative schemes

• Used for nominal and categorical data where magnitude

differences between classes should not be emphasized.


Colorbrewer2.org


Demo of Oracle BI 11g Maps


Nokia Location & Commerce Data

Formerly NAVTEQ

• Nokia is the leading global provider of digital map,

traffic and location data that enables navigation and

location-based platforms around the world.

• Nokia data is licensed direct or through a reseller.

• Licenses are use specific.

• Nokia data resides inside your own Oracle Database.

• Nokia publishes an ODF (Oracle Data Format) version

of its data designed specifically for use in an Oracle

Database instance.


Nokia Content for OBI

• Geocoding

• Points of Interest


Spatial Analytics Example

People Living Within Distance of Store Type

• Population

Information

(by census

blocks) on

people living

within

distance of

specified

Store Type • Requires Spatial

analytic function (sdo_within_distance)

• Combines non-BI

data (population

information)


Deconstructing The Analysis

The Dashboard Components

Map View

Standard Answers view

Distance, Postal Code, Category

Prompts

Populate request variables; passed

on down as Session Variables

Pivot View

Standard Answers view

Answers Criteria

Underlying table in RPD is an

OPAQUE view with parameterized

SQL containing Spatial functions



Prompts, Variables, Opaque Views

Prompts

Populate request variables; passed on

down as Session Variables to BI Server

Answers Criteria

Columns from Subject Area

(L – Geo Loc)



• Constructing The Spatial SQL In An Opaque ViewSession Variables

Values set in Dashboard as

Request Variables; passed on

down to Server as session

variables

Opaque View

Parameterized SQL utilizes Oracle Spatial function

(sdo_within_distance) to perform spatial analytics

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For more information

• Oracle Business Analytics: oracle.com/bi

• @OracleAnalytics

• @OracleBITech

• www.youtube.com/evolvingBI

• Oracle Spatial and Graph Resources:

• www.oracle.com/technetwork/database/options/spatialandgraph/spatial

White papers, downloads, case studies & more

• IOUG Spatial and Graph SIG

• @oracledatabase

• www.facebook.com/OracleDatabase


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http://twitter.com/oracleAnalytics






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Thank You!

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Using Maps and Geo Spatial Analytics in Oracle

Business Intelligence 11g

Presenter Information

Tim Vlamis, Consultant

Vlamis Software Solutions, Inc.

816-781-2880

[email protected]

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